Orin Kerr provides his analysis and views on the issue over on The Volokh Conspiracy. Does the Fourth Amendment require a warrant to conduct surveillance of a government-installed GPS device, such as a device installed on a suspect’s car to monitor the car’s location? This issue comes up occasionally, and the DC Circuit has a…
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New Swedish law draft for centralized internet and telephony interception
From WikiLeaks.org: This file presents a draft law for internet and telephony spying from the Swedish department of justice. The document was mentioned, but not released, by Svenska Dagbladet on Dec 12, 2009 [1]. The legislation is aimed at giving Swedish police and domestic intelligence the power to automatically intercept internet traffic that passes through…
Google Faces a Different World in Italy
Eric Pfanner reports on the trial of four Google executives in Milan. They have been charged criminally in conjunction with a video that appeared on Google Video that showed a disabled student being set upon by four teens who actually taped and uploaded the video. Google executives have been charged with privacy invasion as well…
Government points finger at Internet, Internet points back
This has been a busy month for John Young of Cryptome.org. Not only did he post a slew of not-for-public-distribution compliance guides for law enforcement seeking subscriber or customer data, but he also posted an unredacted version of a Transportation Security Administration manual that had been inadequately redacted. To top things off, Cryptome published some…